Takahiro Kawamura is
a Senior Researcher at Department of Information Planning, Japan Science and Technology Agency,
and also
an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Systems, the University of Electro-Communications,
a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.
He received a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University.
From 2001 to 2002 he was a Visiting Scholar in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
His current research interests include integration of semantics and natural language processing, and internet services.
Dr. Kawamura published almost 120 papers in journals, books and as refereed Conference and Workshop contributions.
He served as a chair of SIG on Semantic Web and Ontology in Japan,
a former W3C Advisory Committee Representative, and
in the Program Committee of numerous conferences and workshops including International Semantic Web conference.
He was also a member of W3C, FIPA, and a board member of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI).